Ayo Akinfe
I ask whether Nigerians ever set themselves annual national goals. Growing up as kids, we were all told to make new year resolutions. I wonder why this does not extend to national and developmental matters
Are Nigerians aware of the fact that Unesco advised the country to spend 26% of her national budget on education?...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you that on July 11 1960, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger Republic all declared their independence from France? Sadly, they did not agree to merge and form one country
That year 1960 was the one which most African nations achieved independence. If we want to be honest about it, after World War Two,...
NIGERIA is no longer poverty capital of the world as the latest statistics from the World Poverty Clock (WPC) show that India has overtaken the country as the nation with the highest number of people living in penury.
Up until now, Nigeria has the highest number of people on earth living in absolute poverty but India has now...
Ayo Akinfe
When I look at the lockdown over Covid-19, I keep seeing parallels with World War Two. During that conflict, nations had to step up the production of new industrial goods like armaments, food was scarce and rationing was introduced in many countries. The US in particular, emerged as an unprecedented industrial economy from...
NIGERIA is projected to become the second most populous nation on earth by 2100 as a recent United Nations (UN) document has estimated that the population will balloon overtaking that of China making the country number two behind India.
According to a recent UN document, by 2030 the world population will be 8.5bn and this...
Ayo Akinfe
As things stand, the US has military bases all over West Africa. For now that is not a problem because we are a safe dumping ground for American goods. However if Nigeria's economy grows to the point whereby we are considered a trading threat, the policy will suddenly change
One other thing Nigerians are refusing to...
Ayo Akinfe
You simply have to give it to India for leveraging on their English-speaking population and making the best out of business process outsourcing (BPO). Virtually every American and British blue chip company has an Indian call centre
As far back as 2012, around 2.8m Indians were working in the BPO sector and the number...
Ayo Akinfe
The largest black nation on earth with a population in excess of 200m
Africa’s largest economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) estimated to total $514bn in 2021 by the IMF
Estimated to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050 behind China and India
The one nation that can rally the 1.2m...
Ayo Akinfe
From henceforth, all public sector contracts must be published online
All contract bids must be made through an online portal
All government, ministries, departments and agencies must have a contract bidding online portal
All bids will be subject to review by a panel made up of civil servants, members of the...
Ayo Akinfe
We like to blame colonialism for all our woes but after 50 years as an independent nation, that excuse was no longer tenable. On August 31 1957, Malaya gained independence from Britain. Like Nigeria, she was ruthlessly colonised by the British but had to be let go after World War Two.
A gentleman named Tunku...
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